"Every Mavica up until now has had a simple floppy drive in the back. Images are written to disk as perfectly ordinary JPGs, so you can read them in anything that can understand an MS-DOS format floppy. Floppy disks cost, oh, maybe $AUD7 for ten, and you get more than a megabyte of capacity per disk. And if you lose or destroy a floppy, hey, no big deal. A few pictures might have gone down the tubes, but the disks themselves are cheap enough that you can use them for drink coasters..."